But that presidency is over. It will be something else. There will be all kinds of fights and there will be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over. Some really strong words from mr. Bannon. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts joins us now at the inside story. Jesse, good evening to you. Steve bannon and others, a lot of his acolytes and democrats are now in control what the president heres at the white house. As for cds bannon, hes back at work at breitbart. Employees tweeting out that he has resumed his position. Even attending an editorial meeting today. Bannon plans to go on the warpath against opponents of President Trump, in congress and in the media and in corporate america. And against what bannon refers to as globalists. That would be people like gary cohn, Jared Kushner, h. R. Mcmaster, and steven mnuchin. In some ways, bannon is now unchanged from the constraints of the white house that sort of had him pinned down. He is now free to go out and do whateve
And i hope nothing big has happened in the news in the last few hours anyway. People are still mad about the shutdown, you know what its like. I can do a shutdown down and shutdown analysis. Great. Pretty much. You need update s on anything, you can call me. Its the 21st century so we have radio in the car. I have a wicked smart phone so i am completely up to date. Very good. Well done my friend. Thank you. Thanks a lot. The president is on air force one tonight, heading to switzerland for the World Economic forum, but just before the president left the white house, he surprised reporters by stopping to talk with them at the entrance to white house chief of staff john kellys office. And, after a few questions about International Trade and immigration, the president was asked about the special prosecutors investigation. Are you going to talk to mueller . Im looking forward to it, actually. Just so you can understand, theres been no collusion whatsoever. Theres no obstruction whatsoever.
The president is spending the holidays. Steve, good to see you. Reporter kelly, good to see you. Now, this information is coming from an article in the New York Times which cites unnamed officials both u. S. And foreign. It says the entire impetus for the fbi investigation into possible russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election may be the former young, unpaid Foreign Policy adviser, George Papadopoulos. The story says that papadopoulos meeting in a london wine bar withc australias top diplomato london told him, quote, that they had dirt, the russians had found dirt on Hillary Clinton through hacking with her emails. Now, papadopoulos, of course, now has already pleaded guilty to lying to fbi officials in the information, and he is a cooperating witness. As far as the Trump Administration response goes, the initial response comes from white house lawyer ty cobb. It comes as follows out of respect for the special counsel and his process, we are not commenting on matters such a
Not the sort of person he wanted to have on the team. That may still be true. Now we are learning from an actual white house official ay not sources from the outside which were the initial sources of this. Hearing from the white house official that steve bannon in fact tendered his resignation to the president back on august 7th. It may be that there were discussions with john kelly back then, he was pretty much brandnew as the president s chief of staff. Perhaps steve bannon would not hang around. As he expected he will leave at some point. May be just that bannon thought his time had come to an end and that it was time to leave. That would seem to argue against the notion that steve bannon was fired by the president today or fired by the chief of staff. If, in fact, he offered his resignation back on the seventhf heres the official take fromsi the white house, White Househe chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon have mutuallyth agreed today would be steves last day. We are gratef
Mr. Bannon who answered plenty of questions refusing to answer questions today to congress. That is according to the lawmaker who was in the room whom i will talk to in a moment. Can steve bannon do that legally . We will find out when word of the development hit this afternoon, press secretary said his testimony uncooperative enough to earn him a subpoena from the panel. Bannon also got subpoenaed from special counsel mueller making him the first known member of president s past or present inner circle to get a subpoena. We begin with what he is saying, what he is not saying, and manu raju joins us from the capital. Talk to me about what has been going on. Reporter well this has been a rather contentious affair, after about 90 minutes this morning in when he was talking about his role during the campaign, he was asked about the transition period after the President Trump won the election last november. At that point his lawyer interjected and would not answer questions about what happ